Filipino Chicken Soup (Nilagang Manok)

Nilagang Manok is a very simple, boiled chicken soup recipe. When I mean simple, I mean ‘chuck chicken, water and vegetables in a pot’ kinda simple. This dish, along with others like the Chicken Rice Porridge (Arroz Caldo), was cooked by my mum for us kids when we were feeling under the weather. I now find when my loved ones are sick, I’m making this dish for them too.

I posted a picture of this recipe on my Facebook page and while it isn’t a Thermomix recipe, a few people have asked for the recipe so I thought it appropriate to share here. It’s a really versatile dish; you can use any chicken piece you want (thigh/wings/drumsticks work best) and you can go all out on the vegetables; it’s not uncommon to use beans, carrots or bok choy in this dish just to name a few. These will all add flavour to the soup stock and when teamed with rice, can be very nourishing when you can’t stomach anything else.